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from parts of Ouachita Parish and Rapides Parish. Catahoula Lake, formerly within the parish's boundaries and named from a Taensa/Natchez word meaning big, clear lake: 8,414: 739 sq mi (1,914 km 2) Claiborne Parish: 027: Homer: 1828: from part of Natchitoches Parish. Governor of Louisiana William C. C. Claiborne: 13,670: 768 sq mi (1,989 km 2 ...
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
In 1912 Calcasieu Parish still comprised an area of more than 3,600 square miles (9,300 km 2), and remained the largest parish in the state by geographic area. In 1912, "Imperial Calcasieu" was further divided with the creation of the three new parishes of Allen , Beauregard , and Jefferson Davis , with a total area of approximately 2,548 ...
Parish Size Date Established Date Removed Remarks Image Hodges Gardens State Park: Sabine Parish: 700 acres (283 ha) [56] 1956 [56] October 1, 2017 [57] The park features a 225-acre man-made lake that was built in 1954. [56] After a funding issue, the donated property was reverted to the A.J. and Nona Triggs Hodges Foundation. [57]
Cameron Parish (French: Paroisse de Cameron) is a parish in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,617. The parish seat is Cameron. [2] Although it is the largest parish by area in Louisiana, it has the second-smallest population in the state, ahead of only Tensas.
Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 240,082 as of 2023. It is the larger principal city of the Lake Charles-DeRidder combined statistical area, with a population of 276,909. [26] The 2020 population of the five-parish region of Southwest Louisiana was 313,951. [27]
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of ten metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs); 37 of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. [1] According to the 2020 United States census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,918,560 (84.1% of the state's population).
River Parishes. Ascension Parish in the north is not always considered a River Parish. Main building at "Laura" Creole plantation, in Vacherie, St. James, 2002 photograph. The River Parishes are the parishes in Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that span both banks of the Mississippi River, and are part of the larger Acadiana region ...